There are some strange answers here. Either there are a lot of very old people or people who should be on suicide watch given their suggestions of things that clearly won’t last very long. I’m assuming a difference between things breaking and things being broken through misuse.
I’m going to assume I’ll live another 45 years here.
My first electric Guitar should probably last and holds some sentimental value. My other guitars I can imagine selling at some point even though right now I like them.
Maybe some tools will last that are little more than solid pieces of metal. But how much use I’ll have for them when I’m in my 80s i don’t know, so maybe they move on before I do.
Kitchen table and coffee table are very solid and may out live my kids. But maybe we’ll decide to swap to something else with a different style after 30 years, who knows.
That’s all I can think of that has any chance of me keeping that long without breaking through standard use.
My bicycle
I’m in my 70s, soooo pretty much everything I own. Sigh.
Do you mind if I ask you how you made it to Lemmy?
A morakniv knife, a ka-bar knife and an Opinel knife.
A Citizen watch A Kenneth Cole mechanical watch
A lighter
Now I understand why we men love all these things. They last forever and for some reason this really appeals to men.
Opinel knives are the shit! I use them exclusively for fletching.
The cast iron has made it 30 years with me and I expect it to live past my lifetime and my kids’ lifetimes and if they have any kids who want them, outlive them as well.
I have some furniture (cabinets) from my grandma that my kids want when I die too, in particular the gun cabinet my dad converted to a shelved cabinet.
I never want to move again, so the house I hope but it requires so much maintenance I don’t know if it counts.
If I can possibly keep my 2014 Honda going I will. Would prefer to keep it until I stop driving (love it so much) but like the house, at some point I’m not sure it’s the same car.
Our cast-iron pots
Probably our stainless steel too
+1 cast iron crew, I have my mother’s pans, which were her grandmother’s. They had a little rough patch when mom went through some shit, and I later had to reseason them but they are 👨🍳🤌💋 now.
Other lifetime items would be my piano, Singer sewing machines, china (I have like 4 passed down collections, lol), and probably most of my hand tools.
In line with this, I love my carbon steel wok and pans.
Same with my cast iron pans.
Our cast iron pots were inherited from my grandmother, and I expect when I die they’ll find another home.
The clothes that juuuuust don’t quite fit that I’m hoarding just in case I manage to lose that wright I’ve been trying to lose for the last thirty years now.
I have ADHD, so literally nothing is safe.
Same, but I have some hope for the 440 lbs anvil in the shed.
Same. Plus hobbies and interests change so there is always new stuff coming and old stuff going.
My accoustic guitar, I desperately hope, I love it way too much to ever be without it.
- Kitchen knives. No reason to replace them with others that would do the exact same thing.
- Cast iron skillets. Indestructable, will easily outlive me.
- Shemagh scarf. Oldest piece of clothing I have. I’ve had it for almost 20 years.
- Bushcraft knife. Indestructable, does everything it needs to and nothing else. No need to upgrade.
- Leatherman Wave. There are newer and better ones out there but it has sentimental value to me and 99% of the time when I need a multitool it’s either the pliers or screwdriver that I’m after.
- Yeti thermos mug. Can’t possibly imagine what new feature a mug could have that would make me want to upgrade.
The newer Leathermans aren’t better, their durability and build quality took a nosedive. If you have an old Wave, that’s the best Leatherman you’ll ever be able to own.
It’s around 20 years old, if not older. What’s interesting to me is that when I bought it, I hadn’t done any research - I just walked up to the Leatherman display at the store, fiddled with all of them, and the Wave was the one I liked best. Only 15 years later did I find out it’s one of their best selling models.
The only feature from the newer models I wish it had is one handed operation for the pliers where you can just flick it open like a pocket knife.
- Kitchen knives.
Ditto. I have a couple I want to get as extravagant extensions to the collection, but very few I can foresee getting rid of. Even the old, heavy, no-name chef’s knife I inherited from grandma has a place as an impromptu machete for spaghetti squash.
- Cast iron skillets.
Again, same.
- Yeti thermos mug.
Hmmm. For me, it’s Zojirushi thermoses. We have two that we’ve had for over a decade each. There’s a rubber seal I always worry will wear out some day, but they both still look like new so maybe they’ll last forever.
I’ve seen knives break so I don’t imagine they will last the rest of my life but I don’t see any reason to replace them if they are still in good working order or reparable
For my creative work I need scalpels and blades. Buying good quality Swann Morton blades in small packages is very costly. So I bought 200pcs Box. Whenever I take a new blade, I think how I will pick from this box mostly for the next 40 years of my life. I might even die before I used the last blade. But then again, that was how I got my first blades from my grandfather back when I was a teenager. It seems to be a pan-generational item in our family.
Are you Dexter?
Curious what you use scalpel blades for in your hobby?
My house.
Yeah, I’m never going through that process ever again haha
Electric shaver (oscillating)
Bone-conducting headphones
Multi-tool (all stainless construction)
Does the shaver and headphones have replaceable batteries?
Thanks for asking.
I just looked it up and the shaver has an ifixit video on how to replace the battery. Looks like a 10-15 minute changeover.
No video or instructions for the headphones, but a replacement battery part is available.
What has made bone conducting so good for you? I got a pair from my partner but we aren’t super impressed vs earbuds, except they suit fitness better
I like them, because most of my use cases are to still be able to hear if other people close-by call out.
Being able to use them wet is a bonus.
The 8hr playback is good for me.
They are quite hardy
The lower sound quality and lower volume is not a problem for me, because it is at a passable level.
If I want crisp sound, it’s on monitors or decent enclosed headphones.
I’m old enough to realize most everything will either need to be replaced or given up as lifestyles change, but young enough not to count random stuff I happen to have.
Some really precious things I’ll keep forever, but don’t really use.
Just looking around the house and thinking, will I have any of this in my last years is sobering.
That said there are a few knickknacks I’m likely to keep since they are small and easy to keep up with. Maybe my collection of old Christmas albums. A few ornaments. A few Keychain. Deploymas…
